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Author: Gregory Beatty

Greg Beatty is a crime-fighting shapeshifter who hatched from a mutagenic egg many decades ago. He likes sunny days, puppies and antique shoes. His favourite colour is not visible to your puny human eyes. He refuses to write a bio for this website and if that means Whitworth writes one for him, so be it.
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but doesn’t the city know when to prune really large trees? my hood hasn’t even had the st gutters cleaned for 2ish yrs.

We have a city manager @ 1/4 million $ salary + bennys , isn’t this sorta thing in the job decsription? Drive/walk/cycle, around Reggieville. and take notes MR. manager? I guess he’s like Pat & spends 1/3 of a year,Not Here.

Isn’t the mayor a Manager or GM or ?

I would do the city managers job for 37% of his wage, because that amount would be about 11x years of what I earn now.
(ps..no bennies)

If they’re smart and want to keep a finger on the pulse of the city, they should read everything city-related that they can find.

Glad to see you got some action; it takes great patience and persistence.

There is a huge urban forest, and because of the restrictions on pruning elms, City-tree care is what you and I and others would call slow. I’m sure that the avenue and cross-street trees by us were pruned within the past 5 years or so, but the nearest street light is already obscured by regrowth. And lucky us: we have 6 City trees to cope with.

I look at the species of most Regina’s Elm trees as ..weeds, really big weeds.

I had a 50+’er w/ 30′ limbs, at a house I rented in the Okanagan, 15 years ago.

The landlord agreed with me that it needed pruning, as it was so wide that the lawn got so little sunlight.The tree was a bit bug infested too.

So we removed around 90% of the canopy.
The next spring, the tree flourished. It looked like the same tree 4 months later.

That Autumn, we stumped the tree to about a foot and a half.
The next spring, the stump grew about 100 suckers( that’s the term ), so we dug, chain-sawed the roots, and hired a tow-truck to pull out the stump.

I have 3 30′ Elms in my yard ,I don’t spray any herbicides or pesticides on them, so the birds can take care of the bugs.